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8:18am
May 13, 2014
Does anyone know where that “geeky Aspie/autie” stereotype comes from? Is it from that Wired article (“The Geek Syndrome” I think it was called) that showed up over ten years ago? Or was it around even before that? Just curious.
It was around long before that. It comes from the fact that there’s always been a lot of overlap between geeks and autistic people.
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padre-diablo reblogged this from withasmoothroundstone and added:Im a geek/autistic. Just study so much, and the internet is a great resource for info, so geek.
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withasmoothroundstone reblogged this from mulder-are-you-suggesting and added:It was around long before that. It comes from the fact that there’s always been a lot of overlap between geeks and...
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nonneurotypicalnonconformist reblogged this from mulder-are-you-suggesting and added:I’ve thought for a long time that the common-denominator defining characteristic of geeks is our tendency to gather and...
naughtyautie reblogged this from autisticdetectives and added:There’s also such a thing as a phenotype. There is a lot of research that shows a correlation between autism/aspergers...
autisticdetectives reblogged this from mulder-are-you-suggesting and added:I feel like it has to do with most autistic people having special interests, which often are TV shows, science, math,...
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